Paint or color disperser with locking device for the valve-operating lever.



H. MIKOREY & 0. WAGENER. PAINT 0R COLOR DISPBRSER WITH LOCKING DEVICE FOR. THE VALVE OPE. ATING LEVER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC 20.1907

928,682. Patented July 20, 1909 UNITED STATES P AEENT OFFICE.

HANS MIKOREY, OF SCHON EBERG,

NEAR BERLIN, AND CLEMENS WAGENER, OF N EURUPPIN.

GERMANY, ASSIGNORS TO THE FIRM 0F MINIMAX CONSOLIDATED LIMITED, HI" LONDON,

ENGLAND.

PAINT OR COLOR DISPEBSER WITH LOCKING DEVICE FOR THE VALVE-OPERATING LEVER.

Specification 0! Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1909.

Application filed December 20, 1907. Serial No. 407,352.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that we, Hans Mnionev, a c'vil engineer and a subject of the German Iunperor, and a resident. of 13 'artburgstrasse, in the city of Schonebm'g. near Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, and (Turner's 'AuENEn, a civil engineer and a subject of the German Em- )eror, and a resident of 9 Knesebeckstrasse, in the city of Neurup in, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom 0 Prussia and German Empire, have invented jointly a certain new and useful Paint or Color Disperser with Locking Device for the Valve-Operating Lever, of which the following is a specification. 4

The subject matter of this invention has reference to a paint or color disperser or sprayer the valve operating lever of which can be temporarily locked in position during work. In the amt or color sprayer-s heretoforeknown, it was necessary to keep the valve lever continuously depressed as long as the operation was carried on, which results in the valve lever depressing finger of the operator being liable to become tired. lfhe necessity of providing means for looking the valve lever temporarily in position, is particularly felt in the manufacture of fancy pa or goods, inasmuch as in this branch 0 manufacture the operators keep the disperser or sprayer continuously working in order to be able to get through with their work more quickly.

In accordance with this invention the color or paint s rayer or disperser is provided with a locking device by means of which the valve lever is retained in a certain position, in order to allow of carrying the work on continuously, without causing the valve lever operating finger to become tired.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a paint or color sprayer embodyin one form of our invention. Fig. 2 shows the essential parts of Fig. l in the locking position, and Figs. 3 and 4 show in elevation two modified forms of the locking device.

Upon the supportin pipe (1 a stud or lug I; is mounted in the shown in Figs. 1 and 3. the. said lug being provjdedqwith notches r. ()n the valve operating lcvcr'rl a slide 1' is mounted provided iiirms of construction 7 with a forked part and with a button f in of the operator's hand. The valve lever is moreover rovided with a recess through which the ng b can pass upon the depressing of the valve lever 11. When it is desired to retain the valve lever in the depressed position, the slide 0 is moved along the valulever 11 in such a manner, tl1a1.tl1e forked part. of the slide engages with the notches of the lug b, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawing.

Figs. 3 and l are representations of two other forms of construction, in which instead of the lug b on the stnporting pipe 1: a toothed segment h is empiovcd. In the form of construction according to Fig. toothed segment is made stationary, and, the same as in the forms or construction in accordance with Figs. 1 and "2 a slide e which may be influenced by the spring a, is mounted upon the valve lever This slide is however not. provided with a forked part, but with a dog k engaging with the inoculations of the segment It. By means of this arrangement the valve lever can not only be locked in its terminal position, after the depression has been effected, but in any suitable intermediate position, commencing with the position which corresponds to the closing of the valves.

In the form of construction illustrated in Fig. 4, the slide 0 is entirely dispensed with. The toothed segment is made rotatable on the pivoting point m and is kept in engag n ment by means of a spring nwith a tooth o, made integral with the valve lever 11. 'lhc segment I: may also be arranged if desired. so as to he swung aside, so as to be out of enga ement withthe valve lever d for an lengt 1 of time desired.

The illustrations of ditl'erent forms of construction are by no means to be regarded as exhaustive illustrations of the means of lock ing the valve lever in position. Thus, a T shaped slide may be mounted upon the supporting pipe a, the cud part of which engages with a slot oi the valve lever. The cross bar oi the slide on the supporting pipe 1!. after being passed through the lot of the val-w f lever and after the \vitlnlrawal ol' the entire 1 slide. locks the valve lever in the depressed 1 position. The part ol' the locking lllllllh.

order to facilitate operation by the thumb 3, this til) ltll) mnployed in connection with the forms of PullSllilL'tlOll of Figs. 3 and 4. may also be made, so as to present the shape of a straight rack bar. In plat-e of the loekim device, a suitable t-latnping deviee mayal so he emploved.

'hat we claim and desire to secure by 1 Letter Patent of the United States, is:-

l. The combination in a mint or color .lll'tlytl' of a valve lever controlling a pres- .-lllC fluid delivering valve and a paint delivering valve simultaneonsly with means for lot-king said valve lever in a depressed position. substantially as set forth.

'3. in a paint or color sprayer, the eomhination o' a valve lever provided with a slot and controlling a pressure fluid deliver- 5 It. in a paint or color sprayer the comlnnation of a valve lever controlling a pressure fluid dehverm valve and a paint detin-ring valve sin'in taneously, with a rack bar arranged on the frame of the paint; or colon-sprayer, and a slide, movably mounted on said valve lever and provided with a dog engaging the identations of the rack bar in order to loek the valve lever in any position. substantially as described.

4. in a paint; or color sprayer the combination of a valve lever controlling a pressure fluid delivering valve and a paint delivering valve simultaneously, with a dog arranged on said valve lever, and a spring influenred rack bar rotatably mounted in the frame of the paint or color s )rayer, and engaged by the said dog on the valve lever, substantially as set forth.

in testimony whereof we ailix our signatures.

HAN S MIKO'REY. CLEMENS \VAG EN ER. In the presence oflll'lNltt' llasrnn, W1 )Iil unu an Han PT. 

